Entrepreneurial teen mines bitcoins, pays father for the power

By David RaniiThe News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) (MCT)

house to cover the cost of running his energy-hungry computer equipment.

It's all part of the latest business venture launched by the tech-savvy, rising high school junior, who uses high-powered computer processing to obtain newly created bitcoins, a process known by cognoscenti of the digital currency world as bitcoin mining.

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